R
Racket
Records Raglan Rainbow RAM Records Rath Records
Raven Reactive Masters Real World Rego Reiskmore Release
Release
(USA) Request
Records Revolving
Records Rex
Ringsend
Road Ritz Riverside Robin Rockburgh Rolling River
Rossendale
Records Rough
Trade Records Round
Tower Rounder
RR001 At
the Racket
RR002 Brian Rooney – The Godfather (1999)
RR003 At the Racket – Mirth-Making Heroes (2001)
RR005 John Carty – I Will If I Can (2005)
RR006 James Carty – Upon My Soul (2006)
RR007 Matt Molloy, John Carty and Arty McGlynn –
Pathway to the Well (2007)
RR008 At the Racket – It’s Not Racket Science (2008)
RGLP 3 Carl
Hession – Echoes of Ireland (1987)
RGLP 5 Heritage
– Celtic Mystery (1987)
RGCD 6 Stockton’s
Wing – Celtic Roots Revival (1988)
RGLP 7 Frank
Patterson – Ireland’s Best Loved Ballads (1987)
RGLP 8 Galloping
Green – Music for the Dublin Millennium and
Beyond (1987)
RGCD 10 Maura
O’Connell – Just in Time (1987)
RGS 12 Stockton’s
Wing – Polkas/Air (1988 7” single)
RGLP 14 Jimmy Crowley and Stoker’s
Lodge – The Best of ... (1988)
RGLP 15 Tom Kelly – The Penny
Whistle (1988)
Irish label (perhaps the same as Sharpe
Music?)
RB 011 Shannon
Brothers – Shannon
RB 116 Cathal Hayden – Handed Down (1982)
Irish label – no information available.
RMLP 1025 The Dubliners – Fifteen Years On (1977; double LP)
RRCD001 Padraic O’Reilly – Down the Ivory Stairs (2001)
RRCD002 Ennis Céilí Band – Traditional Dance Music from
County
Clare (2003)
RRCD003 Cruinniú – Live in Corofin (2007)
RRCD004 Padraic O’Reilly – Highly Strung! (2007)
No information available.
RVCD 190 Christy Moore – Whatever
Tickles Your Fancy
Absolutely no information available.
REMCD 500 Altan – The Essential Altan
REWCD 357 Various – Celtic Harp
CD RW 26 Various
– Music at Matt Molloy’s
CD RW 61 Afro-Celt Sound System – Volume 1: Sound Magic (1996)
CD RW 67 Iarla Ó Lionáird – The Seven Steps to Mercy (1997)
CD RW 76 Afro-Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release (1999)
CD RW 84 Iarla Ó Lionáird – I Could Read the Sky (2000; film
soundtrack)
CD RW 96 Afro-Celt
Sound System – Volume 3: Further in Time
CD RW 126 Iarla Ó Lionáird – Invisible Fields (2005)
CD RW 133 Afro-Celt Sound System – Anatomic (2005)
Forerunner of the current New York-based label – www.regorecords.com.
Sweet
and Traditional, Music of Ireland
Kathleen Loughnane’s own
Galway-based label.
KLCD 01 Kathleen Loughnane – Affairs
of the Harp
KLCD 02 Kathleen Loughnane - Harping On (2002)
KLCD 03 Kathleen Loughnane – Harp to Heart (2005)
This Irish label was based in Dublin’s Lombard Street,
but also seems to have either been linked to or owned the Shannon Music shop on
Kilburn High Road in London. It also issued albums under the Solo
imprint. Thanks to John Cummins for the first three items on the list.
The
Fitzgeralds of Donegal
BRL 4021 Dermot
O’Brien Céilí Group – O’Brien’s Crossroads Céilí
BRL 4091 Owenmore Céilí Band (1977)
BRL 4109 Ryan’s Fancy – Newport Town (1979)
BRL 8013 The
Irish Brigade Live
XRL 5001 Shaskeen
– Green Groves of Erin
XRL 5003 Shaskeen – The Dawn (1977)
XRL 5004 Spud – Smoking on the Bog (1977)
XRL 5005 Shaskeen
– The Ash Plant
No information available.
Based in New Rochelle, New York, this company issued LPs
in the late 1950s and very early 1960s. Thanks to John Cummins for this
information and the bulk of the listings below.
SRLP8057 Frank
Ritchie – The Singing Ulsterman
SRLP8059 David Hammond –
Belfast Street Songs
SRLP8060 Frank Ritchie –
Courtin' in Ireland
SRLP8061 David Hammond –
Songs of Ireland
SRLP8123 Emerald,
McCusker Bros, Ardellis Céilí Bands – Céilí Time
in Ireland
SRLP8124 Willie
Brady – Irish Street Singer
SRLP8149 The Shamrock
Rebels – Irish Rebel Songs
SRLP10071 Ard Ri Céilí Band
– Dublin Dance Date
SRLP10087 Martin
Mulhaire, Paddy Noonan (accordions) – Memories of
Ireland
REVL 2 Stockton’s Wing – Take One: Live (undated, but by the
haircuts mid-1980s; later issued as REVCD2)
UK label – long defunct, but
apparently part of the Decca group – thanks to John Cummins for additional information.
LPR 1005 Various – Rebellion at Easter (1966 TV soundtrack
which includes Dominic Behan)
LPR 1006 Liverpool
Céilí Band – Off to Dublin
DK CD1 Dolores
Keane (1989)
DKS 4 C Dolores Keane – Lion in a
Cage (1989)
MCG CD 1 Arty McGlynn, Nollaig Casey – Lead the Knave (1989)
MH CD 1 Mick Hanly – All I Remember (1989)
No information available.
Sweet Sixteen (1986)
RITZLCD0069 The Fureys and Davey Arthur – Winds of Change (1992)
RLP 12-602 Margaret Barry – Songs of an Irish Tinker Lady
RLP 12-604 Patrick
Galvin – Irish Drinking Songs
RLP 12-608 Patrick
Galvin – Irish Love Songs
RLP 12-613 Patrick
Galvin – Irish Street Songs
RLP 12-616 Patrick
Galvin – Irish Humour Songs
RLP 12-820 Dominic Behan – Songs of the I.R.A. (1957)
RLP 12-839 Ciarán
Kelly Céilí Band – Irish Dance Party
RLP 12-840 Ormond Star
Céilí Band – The Grand March
ROB/AL/MO72 Dinny McLaughlin – A Rake o’ Reels and a Clatter o’ Jigs
462 Bobby
Gardiner 1989 (1989)
ROC 104 Gay and Terry Woods (1978)
ROC 105 Kevin
Burke – If the Cap Fits (1978)
Providence’s own label – www.providence-trad.com.
RRCD 001 Providence
(1999)
RoRi CD 002 Providence – A Fig for a Kiss (2001)
Number unknown Providence – III (2005)
Lancashire-based label.
MUSCD002 Dónal Maguire – The Clergy’s Lamentation (2000)
MUSCD005 Dónal Maguire – Gilded Chains and Sordid Affluence (2001)
RTRADECD019 Cara Dillon (2001)
RTRADECD123 Cara Dillon – Sweet Liberty (2003)
RTRADECD198 Cara Dillon – After the Morning (2006)
RTMCD 16 Johnny Duhan – Family Album (1990)
RTMCD 32 Mick
Hanly – Warts and All (1991)
RTMCD 61 Mick Hanly – Happy Like This (1992)
RTMCD 094 Sarah
McQuaid – When Two Lovers Meet (1999
reissue of 1997 Mongrel Music release)
3006 The Boys of the Lough – Second Album (reissue of Leader
LER 090)
CD 1087 Various
– From Galway to Dublin: Early Recordings of
Traditional Irish Music (1993)
CD 1123 Various
– Milestone at the Garden: Irish Fiddle Masters
from the 78rpm era (1996)
CD 1774 Margaret Barry – I Sang Through the Fairs (1998)
CD 6005 Irish Traditional Music in America: East Coast (date
unknown)
CD 6006 Various – Traditional Irish Music in America: Chicago
(2001)
CD 6008 Ed Reavy et al. – The Music of Ed Reavy (2001)
CD 6014 Various
– Light Through the Leaves: Traditional Irish Wind
Instrumentals (2001)
11661-7063-2 Cherish the Ladies – Woman of the House (2005)
Easydisc budget series
EDCD 9011 Various
– Celtic Winds
RUB 007 The Buskers – Life of a Man
(1973)
RUBCD 029 Seán McGuire and Josephine Keegan
– On Two Levels
(1982)
Recent arrival on the Irish
scene – www.rubyworks.com.
RWXCD 60 Moving Hearts – Live in Dublin (2007)